BUPC Incubator Company Wins NREL Clean Energy Forum’s Best Venture Award
On October 21, 2010, Micron-gap Thermal Photo Voltaics (MTPV) Corporation won the Best Venture Award at the 23rd Industry Growth Forum. MTPV was founded by Robert DiMatteo in 1995 and is currently an incubator company in the BUPC Business Incubator. The MTPV team developed the Micron-gap Thermal Photo Voltaics semiconductor technology as a means of […]
Professor Theodore Moustakas to receive 2010 MBE Innovator Award
Each year the North America MBE (Molecular Beam Epitaxy) community nominates several scholars for the MBE Innovator Award. Professor Theodore Moustakas has been selected as the 2010 recipient. His citation reads “For pioneering contributions in the development of MBE growth of nitride materials and the development of nitride optoelectronic devices prepared by MBE”. Professor Moustakas […]
Photonics Center Dean’s Fellowships
The Photonics Center is proud to announce three Photonics Center Dean’s Fellowship awardees for the 2010-2011 academic year. Each year, top incoming graduate students from the eight departments affiliated with the Photonics Center are awarded fellowships to work in one of the Photonics Center’s laboratories. The recipients for this year are: Jinwang Tan in Mechanical […]
Hatice Altug Awarded ONR Young Investigator Award
Professor Hatice Altug was awarded the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award on Wednesday, April 7, 2010. For her proposal, High-performance Nano-plasmonic Sensors for Biological Warfare Agent Detection, the ONR awarded Dr. Altug’s group three years of financial support. Professor Altug is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and […]
Hatice Altug Named Liaison to WIEC
The IEEE Photonics Society has named BUPC faculty member, Hatice Altug, to be the 2010 liaison to the Women in Engineering Committee (WIEC). Liaisons act as a conduit between their respective societies and the WIEC. Following is a short description of what the job entails: • Foster an awareness of IEEE Women in Engineering. • […]
Applied Physics Letters Selects ECE/Photonics Research for Cover Story
Applied Physics Letters, a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Institute of Physics, has selected research from the lab of ECE Assistant Professor Hatice Altug as the cover story for its January 11, 2010 issue. The research, which focused on on merging nanoplasmonics with nanofluidics, was authored by ECE Research Associate Ahmet Ali […]
Shane Telescope upgrade includes MEMS deformable mirrors designed by Professor Thomas Bifano
On September 26, 2009, the Lick Observatory at the University of California, Santa Cruz celebrated its 50th Anniversary with an adaptive optics upgrade to the Shane Telescope. The two million dollar upgrade, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, includes Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) deformable mirrors, designed by Boston University Photonics Center (BUPC) Director, […]